Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you’ve worked in the PR industry in the Twin Cities for any length of time, you’ve probably heard about or visited, the MN PR Blog. In fact, to my knowledge, the MN PR Blog was one of the first PR blogs in the entire country! The blog was founded and managed by Ryan May. Since, 2003, to be exact.

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Presspage

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That means the journalists you’re contacting are overwhelmed with pitches; many of them poorly thought out or irrelevant. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Personalize your PR pitches.

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5W PR

JUNE 7, 2023

Interns should visit the company’s website and review their mission statement, values, and past projects. Brushing up on Basic Skills One of the most important things a new intern can do to prepare for a PR internship is to brush up on basic skills that will be essential to the job.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2023

The survey found: 57% are crafting pitches; 48% are writing copy for social media; 48% are writing press releases; 44% are using it for research; and 25% say they are using it for strategy and planning. One AI tools surfaces relevant media contacts based on your pitch or press release – and strives to predict how it will be received.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JUNE 8, 2016

What’s your social media elevator pitch? She is also the social media chair for the NYU International Club and volunteers with the social media team for the PRSA Tri-State events and conferences. Sabrina joined HBO as an intern for her department in 2014 and they haven’t been able to get rid of her since. Read more.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 25, 2023

Communicators can also use the platform as an internal tool to keep employees, stakeholders, or clients informed about industry trends, company updates, or thought leadership content written by executives. How is Substack different from a blog? If so, Substack can open doors and provoke new ideas for PR professionals.

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OnePitch

JUNE 16, 2022

However, a typical day for me often consists of crafting content – from traditional media materials such as press releases and pitches, to sponsored articles, newsletters and even social media calendars. What’s the best pitch of yours that resulted in coverage and what elements made it successful? It depends on the pitch.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

ET, #PRStudChat (sponsored by Spin Sucks ) community members gather for a Twitter chat on “PR for Issues & Advocacy.” However, we encourage all community members to weigh in with their ideas and share their perspectives too. How has the communications landscape changed during your career so far? Is PR Right for me? ”

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 13, 2023

When you pitch a story, you need to be credible too. Make it clear who or what you are pitching. Draw a correlation between your pitch and their prior coverage. Simple advice for PR pitches from journalists Reporters get a lot of pitches. The results found 61% of journalists get 100 pitches a week or more.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

considering international relations, have caused Communications professionals to be evermore careful with comms content. A vast increase in demand and 24/7 availability to address: Actual and perceived crises or emergencies and inquires and requests made by all elected officials and community members.”. More internal comms.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 5, 2021

Meltwater lists on a Swedish stock exchange; startup Propel hits 50 customers; Vetted launches – it’s like HARO or ProfNet with no pitching. For the last couple years, I’ve been curating news from the PR technology community into a monthly summary I call the PR Tech Sum. Vetted” is like HARO or ProfNet with no pitching.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the most fun projects I’ve worked on recently was Oxfam America’s (OA) International Women’s Day (IWD) 2012 campaign. write their own blog post to promote IWD 2012. And in 2011, there were seven blog posts on the campaign that had been tracked. And then we pitched. Do not send blanket pitches.

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Cision

AUGUST 2, 2016

Look internally. Most brands focus externally when creating and promoting content, but they’re missing an important audience to include: the internal audience. If your internal audience isn’t interested in the content you create, how can you expect your external audience to be? Try a few options and evaluate your progress.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In that case, if you send out one email promoting your content – a new blog post for example – 70% of your subscribers didn’t open it. Read more: How To Promote Your Blog With 107 Content Promotion Tactics. Read more: How Content Promotion Works for Blogs Big and Small: Our 11 Favorite Content Distribution Strategies.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 4, 2021

This new feature lets PR pros view, compile and share key data and produce customized executive reports,” the company wrote in a blog post. In other words, we’ll be set-up to track team activities, pitch performance and more in one place.”. While we’re on pitching, Spin Sucks looks at tips from recent surveys.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2017

But practice is broadening to include new forms of media including influencer relations, social media, community engagement and messaging. Many accept pitches, and use their networks as means of raising their profile, showcasing their wares and creating business. This is my motivation for blogging but it doesn’t suit everyone.

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Note: This is a reposted blog by our Public Relations Global Network Party, Mark Paterson – Currie. For the original blog, please visit here. If you do pitch sustainability to the media, be able to provide data on how these efforts have positively impacted your company. Photo courtesy of Pexels.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 20, 2017

We need submissions from across its communities. You’ve two weeks to pitch. Ten days in and we’ve had almost 20 pitches for the CIPR’s anniversary project, covering a wide variety of topics. I’ve written this blog post in an effort to answer this question and so everyone has access to the same information.

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Shift Communications

JULY 26, 2022

Should a recession hit, the narrative around the labor market and the impact it has on businesses, the workforce and our communities will undoubtedly change. It’s been said, “failing to plan is planning to fail.”

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PR Conversations

JULY 20, 2015

It’s understood that the play’s the thing; however, it was the vibrant community found around each performance that proved an unexpected volunteer adventure at The Toronto Fringe festival 2015. A volunteer pitch that persuaded. The time was ripe for me to contribute volunteer hours towards another, preferably new, endeavour.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The endless media pitch calling and subsequent rejections were exhausting. Client Turnover — can lead to instability and the need to perform new business pitches constantly. During the summer, I had the opportunity to work as a public relations intern in the clean energy space.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 11, 2020

It’s also helpful to offer ways to maintain contact with business customers, be helpful in the community, or go the extra distance to support colleagues. He’s limiting his scope to insights from internal subject-matter experts who can help campus and school district leaders manage disruption and make better decisions.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 7, 2020

Two small international PR tech vendors Prezly, and Propel, both promote a similar concept ( here and here ). New features the company highlighted is personalization – the ability to add the first name of a contact to an email pitch – and more flexibility to update your media list. The concept of CRM for PR isn’t new.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. In addition to editorial “blog” content and social media content, consider developing content on the maddafella.com domain. Guest post by Chris Abraham, Digital Strategist at Gerris Corp.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

company website, blogs). It assesses sustainability practices, social impact, and ethical governance PR professionals collaborate with internal teams to compile ESG data and communicate it transparently to stakeholders. PR professionals often pitch op-eds to media outlets to showcase their clients’ expertise and perspectives.

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Marketwired

MARCH 8, 2016

This is post 4 of our 5-part #CreativePR blog series. Every campaign, pitch, or piece of content starts with an idea. Communications professionals know that there’s no shortage of offerings all around us. What does a team brainstorm session look like in one of the most-engaged online PR communities today?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 21, 2020

In early 2011, I published a blog post with “20 places to look for a PR job.” Ned also offers a one-paragraph pitch – this is a chance to pitch yourself one paragraph in the newsletter. Professional Groups and PR Associations There are many associations dedicated to PR and communications. It’s first-come-first-serve.

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Ethical Voices

APRIL 22, 2024

I was pitching four reporters, three of which I knew pretty well. One of them I had actually already been pitching. When we’re working with clients, we disclose if we used research to start it, if we used it for blog post generation, I’ve disclosed to clients, I wrote the whole op-e” entirely myself.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Some organisations have Communications Departments for their public relations needs and some have Marketing Departments for their promotional needs. In this blog post, let’s look at the differences between public relations and marketing. It also involves crisis communication to mitigate damage to the company’s reputation.

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Marketwired

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

And as Lee Odden astutely stated during last week’s PRSA International Conference panel session hosted by Marketwired : “Content is the future of PR.”. How to think about PR in 3 steps: STEP 1: Stop thinking about pitching a publication, start thinking about pitching a channel. Take a look at @AirPR CEO… Click To Tweet.

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The Hoffman Agency

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

By Kyra Hanson, Intern. It is difficult to choose just one highlight from my time as an intern at The Hoffman Agency, because there are so many experiences that I recall fondly. However, one task that stands out to me is writing personalized pitches to reporters.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Get Your Blog Project Approved January 13th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski Okay, you’ve had nearly half a month to sink into 2011. I manage the University of Regina’s blog.

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PR in High Definition

JULY 28, 2022

Data-driven goals, on and off pitch. SEGA , a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment, is using real-time data to drive community activities, improve player experiences, and offer more personalised interactions. Predicting the future, understanding the past, navigating the present – it all comes down to data. Let’s take a look.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 3, 2020

The application in crisis communications is interesting because in the face of negative news coverage the internal debate tends to be two-fold: a) should we respond and b) if so, how? billion ,” according to a new report from Burton-Taylor International Consulting. in 2019, reaching a record $4.5

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 9, 2017

Twitter has said that it has no plans to address the issue and that the community quickly self corrects. Get in early and make considered pitches. FuturePRoof was founded in 2015 by Sarah Hall as community initiative to explore the future of public relations and its contribution to organisations as a management discipline.

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 16, 2019

Seasoned PR pro, Carolyn Adams , Founder at BlueRun PR recounts a time early in her career when she pitched a small outlet. I called the reporter to pitch him, and he told me I was pitching him all wrong!” Today, he leads editorial operations for three leading international business publications.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, she works for ALM Media , a publisher which grew its roots in trade publications for the legal community, but now owns titles beyond just legal including financial services, insurance, and consulting. I’ve learned what our journalist’s lives are like so that has helped me with understanding how I pitch external journalists.

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